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Ferranti Pegasus, Perseus and Sirius Delivery Issue 6 Nov. 2019 CCS-F3X1 Ferranti Pegasus, Perseus and Sirius Delivery Lists and Applications Provenance for the information in these lists is given after the list. We will be very grateful if readers spotting errors could notify corrections to Chris Burton, via an email to [email protected] . Pegasus page 2 Perseus page 4 Sirius page 5 1 Ferranti Pegasus Serial no. destination date applications delivered. Pegasus 1. 1. Ferranti Ltd. Computing Service, Portland Place, London. March 56 general computing service (This machine later went to Vickers). 2. Hawker Aircraft Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames Oct 56 aviation design calculations 3. Admiralty Research Laboratory, Teddington Feb 57 research work 4. Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Ltd, Coventry Nov 56 aviation design & analysis; payroll 5. Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, Hants May 57 6. Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd, Weybridge; (later, to May 57 aviation design calculations Museum of Science & Industry in Manchester) 7. ICI Dyestuffs Division, Manchester – (first Pegasus1 Dec 57 research work; sales with Hollerith punched cards) analysis; stock control 8. NRDC, Northampton Polytechnic, London June 57 research and training 9. De Havilland Aircraft Co Ltd, Hatfield Aug 57 research work; payroll; budgeting. 10. British Thomson-Houston Co. Ltd. (AEI), Rugby Aug 57 turbine design; costing 11. British Iron & Steel Research Association, London Nov 57 operational research work 12. Leeds University Oct 57 research & service work; University registration work 13. Durham University Oct 57 research & service work; University registration work 14. Southampton University March 58 Research & service work 15. Babcock & Wilcox Ltd, London Jan 58 research work; stock control; management accounting 16. The United Steel Companies Ltd, Sheffield Jan 58 operational research work 17. Blackburn Aircraft Ltd, Brough, Yorkshire March 58 research work; production control investigations 18. Svenska Flygmotor AB, Trollhatten, Sweden June 58 research work; production control 19. MOS, Military Survey, Feltham, Middlesex Aug 59 survey calculations 20. Stuttgart University, Germany June 58 research & service work 21. Ferranti Ltd, Hollinwood, Lancs Aug 59 transformer & technical calcs.; production control; wages; service 22. CA Parsons & Co Ltd, Newcastle Jan 59 transformer design work 23. The Steel Co of Wales Ltd, Port Tablot Feb 60 operational research work 24. Ferranti-Packard Electric Ltd, Toronto, Canada Dec 59 transformer design work; service work. 25. The College of Aeronautics, Cranfield, Bedfordshire Sept 60 aircraft design calculations 2 26. Aircraft Armament Experimental Establishment, Jan 62 aircraft design calculations; Boscombe Down, Wiltshire. data analysis. Pegasus 2. 27. Skandia Insurance Co., Stockholm, Sweden, (Then to Dec. 59 originally: actuarial Ferranti Ltd., West Gorton, Manchester; then to work; then computer University College London. This machine is now design; then X-ray operational in gallery 46 of the London Science Museum. crystallography. 28. Ferranti Ltd, Newman Street, London. Aug 60 general computing service work. 29. Bruce Peebles & Co Ltd, Edinburgh Oct 60 transformer design; production control. 30. DSIR, Road Research Lab.,Harmondsworth Jan 61 research calculations; accident record analysis. 31. London & Manchester Ass Co Ltd, London. (This machine Oct 60 branch insurance work; known as 'Pluto'; it had Powers punched card equipment) investment work. 32. Shell Refining Co Ltd, Stanlow, Cheshire Feb 61 refinery technical work; payroll; stock control 33. Shell Research Ltd, Thornton, Cheshire Feb 61 technical work 34. Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd, Weybridge June 61 aircraft design calculations 35. De Havilland Aircraft Co Ltd, Hatfield. (Originally: Sept 61 aircraft design De Havilland Propellers Ltd., Stevenage) calculations 36. Martins Bank Ltd, Liverpool April 61 current account book-keeping. 37. The Edinburgh Computers Ltd, Edinburgh. (Formerly the April 62 pension scheme updating; Scottish Widows Fund & Standard Life Assurance Co.) branch valuations 38. Westminster Bank Ltd, London Nov 61 39. National Provincial Bank Ltd, London May 62 current account book -keeping. 40. British Railways, Eastern Region Oct 62 train timetabling NOTES: [SHL] The above information is chiefly extracted from: B.B.Swann, An informal history of the Ferranti computer department. 1975. (Circulated privately, but see the National Archive for the History of Computing, catalogue number NAHC/FER/C30). Additional information for the destinations of machines 1, 6 and 26 comes from: S.H.Lavington, The Pegasus Story: a history of a vintage British computer. Published by the Science Museum, London, 2000. ISBN: 1-900747-40-5. Additional information for the application of machine number 40 comes from John Deutsch, in an e-mail to Simon Lavington dated 5/8/2003. 3 Ferranti Perseus Serial no. destination date applications delivered. 1 AB DataCentralen (a subsidiary of the Trygg and the Fylgia Apr 59 Life insurance, motor Insurance Companies), Midsommarkransen, Stockholm, insurance, property Sweden. insurance. 2 South Africam Mutual Life Assurance Society, Capetown, South Ca Dec Life insurance Africa. 59 NOTES: [CPB] Personal knowledge of above as maintenance engineer on 1. 4 Ferranti Sirius Customer ID; delivery Expected application Notes date Ferranti Ltd., West 1 1959? (Prototype) (Also exhibited). Gorton, Manchester Ferranti Ltd., Newman 1 Jun General computing service Later passed to Ferranti Street, London. 1960 work. Ltd, Melbourne, Australia. 2 Feb Ditto. 1961 Yarrow & Co Ltd, 1 Oct Pipe stressing calculations. Scotstoun, Glasgow. 1961 Technical & commercial work. External services. Ferranti Ltd, Melbourne, 1 Dec General computing service From Newman Street. Australia. 1961 work. Later passed to Caulfield College, Melbourne. 2 Jan Ditto 1962 Cement and Concrete 1 Jan Frame stressing work. Association, Slough. 1962 ICI Australia & New 1 Feb Scientific & technical. Zealand Ltd, Melbourne, 1962 Australia. Steel Research Institute 1 Mar Technical work. (VÚHŽ), Prague, 1962 Czechoslovakia. Builders' Copper Tube 1 Mar Invoicing etc. Ltd., London. 1962 Royal College of Science 1 Apr Teaching and Research & Technology, Glasgow. 1962 Battersea Technical 1 (1962?) College, London. Heriot Watt College, 1 Apr-May Teaching. Edinburgh. 1962 Monash University, 1 July Administrative and Melbourne, Australia. 1962 research work. Davy & United 1 Sep Design of steel making Engineering Co. Ltd, 1962 equipment. research & Darnall, Sheffield. performance analysis Caulfield Technical 1 Leased (From Ferranti Ltd, College, Melbourne Feb1963 Melbourne). Caulfield College eventually became a part of Monash Univ. Admiralty, Bath. 1 Mar Design & construction 1963 calculations for naval vessels. British Railways, London 1 Mar 62 Technical work. Bonus Midland Region, London. or calculations. Apr 63 Trumpy y Sirvent, 1 1963 Service centre work. 5 Avda del Generalisimo, Madrid, Spain Pilkington Brothers, 1 1963 Research. Lathom, Lancashire. National Aeronautical 1 1963? Research Laboratory, Bangalore, India. Blackburn College of ? ? Reputedly received Technology and Design more than one donated machine when earlier UK Sirius customers upgraded. There may possibly have been a few more Sirius deliveries after 1963. If so, the takeover of Ferranti’s mainframe computing interests by ICT in 1963, and subsequent reorganisations, may account for our difficulty in tracing any later sales records. Some Sirius computers were moved from their original sites – (see Ferranti Ltd., Newman Street and Ferranti Ltd, Melbourne in the above Table). Writing in about 1973, Bernard Swann [Ref. 5] says: “At one time the Blackburn College of Technology and Design had seven Sirius computers, more than half the total sold on the UK market. Several of these have been passed to schools and are still in operation in 1973. ... Of the 10 delivered to UK customers between 1960 and 1963, six were still in use in 1971 though most had been removed from their original location”. Further comments on particular installations. The deliveries in the above Table, and the following Notes, rely heavily on the research carried out by the late Brian Parker and by Steve Poulton and John Feist (all members of the CCS), and by Barbara Ainsworth of Melbourne. Their help is gratefully acknowledged. References are given at the end. Ferranti Ltd., West Gorton, Manchester . This is where Sirius was designed and manufactured. The prototype was shown for the first time at the IEE’s inaugural International Transistor Exhibition in London from 21st to 28th May 1959 and then exhibited around the UK [Refs 7, 8 & 9]. The prototype Sirius was also used to predict the result of the UK General Election of 8th October 1959. According to [Ref. 9]: “An election forecasting demonstration was held on the night of the General Election. The early election results were successfully used by Pegasus and Sirius to predict the final state of the parties. The results were displayed to visitors and published in the Manchester Guardian and the Financial Times the following morning. A subsequent paper, "Forecasting Election Results", was published in the British Computer Journal, January issue, 1960”. Two more exhibitions of Sirius are of note: During the first week of December 1959 Sirius was installed to demonstrate its capabilities at Round Oak Steel Works in Birmingham [Ref. 9]. Ex- Ferranti employee Martin Edmunds recalled [Ref. 10]: “Sirius was installed in a shed alongside
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